IIS actually logs on to your computer as a user usually called IUSR_PC1 or IUSR_<computer name>

In order to get proper IIS functionality, the IUSR user account must have full administrator privileges. I am assuming you are familiar with Windows 2000/XP user account/group settings, so I will not go into detail about this.

You must also set a default page from your IIS control panel. The preset default page is default.asp (which seems to be the one you are using). Also, check if IIS is started. Try going to http://localhost/ (assuming you copied the default.asp file to wwwroot). If this works, you may not have included the testsite folder into your IIS website. What I usually do is create a root folder and move my website there.

IUSER should NOT have full administrative rights to anything. The one bad thing about running IIS on a workstation is that you can only sset up one site at a time. If you are going to do any serious development get a server OS you can set up to use multiple IP addresses with multiple web sites running at once. I still haven't figured out IIS on Win2k WS, I just use NT4 server and IIS4 for anything I want to set up.

Rockn: I use IIS on my workstation to test all my asp... i have win2k pro... it works fine for me. not sure why you say you should never give IUSER full admin rights...
and... i have several sites setup in my IIS... the wwwroot folder is created for you.. then you can create subfolders for each website and put the files in those folders... then you just have to set what page you want to use as a default for that folder and you got it going..... but maybe i totally missed your point....

I_USR should be set up as an internet guest account. It should not have full admin rights. It's a special account used for anonymous login to the website so people or you can view the webpage etc.. You can require a password if you want, but either way, it should be set to deny any kind of write permissions. I can be more specific about the settings if needed.

@DJ-TM

Have you tried just a regular html file to see if anythings working.

You have to make sure the IIS Administration and www service are started.

Sometimes on Win2k, you have to drop your local intranet security settings for IE if they are set too high.

Check your IIS Config.

start
run
%SystemRoot%\system32\inetsrv\iis.msc

right-click on "Default Website"
left-click on properties
Switch to home directory tab
make sure the path to your wwwroot folder is correct
set the just the "read" checkbox
For execute permissions, set "scripts only".

still under the home directory tab, click on "configuration" and make sure the asp extension is in the list and associtated with C:\WINDOWS\system32\inetsrv\asp.dll

To check that the IIS servers is running..

start
run
services.msc
make sure IIS Admin is started, http ssl is started, and World Wide Web Service is started.

also, just put the default.asp page in the root of the wwwroot folder instead of inside the test folder.

shadow2531 >>
more appropriatlely, it should br C:\<windows folder>\sestem32\inetsrv\asp.dll

and im having a problem serving a webpage from iis also. most likely this is a tcp/ip setting problem. when someone send an http request to my ip ( like http://111.222.121.212/ ) they get a unresolved host message. and if anyone pings my ip address they get a request timed out.

y???

and secondly,

y me???? u dont have to answer that

PS: i have a 4mb\2mb (in\out) adsl conn and a non-static ip, but i dont disconnect from the internet...